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upper middle class and homeowners who prevent more housing built for the poors.
by dominotw 4y ago
upper middle class and homeowners who prevent more housing built for the poors.
- muaytimbo 4y agoThese "upper middle class" people pull the levers the government has put in place. If you want less regulation/zoning and more housing the problem is not "homeowners" it is the underlying structure that imbues them with veto power.
- kodah 4y agoWell, it is a problem with homeowners because they're choosing to exercise a right that's patently unequitable. You are right that getting them to do the right thing is impossible, and that disenfranchising them is the only path forward.
- muaytimbo 4y agoPatently unequitable is an opinion, I'm not sure you can fault someone for voting if you give them a vote. But why anyone other than the property owner has a say over the property in question's management is still a mystery to me.
- L_Rahman 4y agoThis is a problem in many places, but it is absolutely not a problem in Korea which adds housing units in every one of its metro areas at a rate that would make community approval boards in the United States pass out. Seoul has a population of eight million. In the five years between 2015 and 2020, it added two hundred thousand housing units, and that rate is only going up. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290699/south-korea-number-of-homes-in-seoul/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290699/south-korea-numb...